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Blue Yonder is a Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader 13 Years in a Row

BlueYonder

This is an example of what one of our valued customers is saying about our solution: “We first implemented Blue Yonder’s transportation management platform in 2006. Sources: 1 Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Transportation Management Systems,” Brock Johns, Oscar Sanchez Duran, Carly West, Manav Jain, 27 March 2024.

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Inventory is Everything with Jeff Flowers

The Logistics of Logistics

Quickly moving towards his true passion of operations, Jeff spent 2006-2016 in various roles with the nation’s largest building products Distributor, BlueLinx. In 2016, Jeff partnered with Franklin Young to purchase PTI Security, a leader in Physical Access Control and with support from Source Capital, an Atlanta based Private Equity firm.

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Taking a Big Picture View of Supply Chain Networks

Logistics Viewpoints

Diversity of sources (carriers + vendors + customers). And it must integrate with a myriad of internal and external systems such as transportation management, warehouse management, order management, ERP, weather and traffic systems and many more. trillion terabytes of new data every day.). Data integrity.

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Visibility: If Only I Could See

Supply Chain Shaman

Examples include Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Warehouse Management (WMS_ or Advanced Planning (APS). In 2004-2006, Greg Aimi (now a Gartner analyst) and I worked on a common definition of visibility for over a year. These sources while functional are difficult to connect. What does an IT taxonomy mean?

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Transforming Consumer Value Chains: Navigating The Power Shift to the Shopper

Supply Chain Shaman

When we do these types of analysis, we look back at the data as far as we can reach (Y chart data is available only back to 2006 in a reliable form) and then we look at the period of 2006-2014 and the more recent period of 2011-2014. Most of this spend is targeted at the redefinition of warehouse management to make eCommerce a reality.

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Nasty Gal: When a Disrupter Isn’t Disruptive Enough

FLEXE

Founded by 32-year-old Sophia Amoruso in 2006, Nasty Gal’s rise and fall happened in less than a decade. But, because it operated at such low product minimums, it struggled to source quality factories that produced quality product. Nasty Gal Inc., During its peak years, Nasty Gal had no issue converting a first-time buyer.

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Combat Rising Transportation Costs and Driver Shortage With Supply Chain Analytics

Savi

To put this in perspective, 2018 is the first year since 2006 in which driver shortage is the primary concern of the industry. Some sources recorded up to a 20 percent annual demand increase for large truckload carriers and fleets. This demand spike coincided with a huge increase in driver turnover.